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Course: 2024/2025

Demography

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Dual Bachelor in International Studies and Political Science (Plan: 506 - Estudio: 320)

Coordinating teacher: JUIF , DACIL TANIA

Department assigned to the subject: Social Sciences Department

Type: Compulsory

ECTS Credits: 6.0 ECTS

Course: 3º

Semester: 2º

Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)

Basic mathematics

Objectives

LEARNING OUTCOMES - Understand, compare and apply basic demographic concepts (natural fertility, parity-specific, IDP, marriage squeeze, etc.) - Know how demographic data are collected (in censuses, civil registrations, and data repositories) and be able to retrieve and use them - Acquire the necessary tools for demographic analysis (calculate indices like the TFR, life expectancy, CDR, migration turnover, migration ratio) - Trace population dynamics from a historical and global comparative perspective; identify current trends and future scenarios - Learn about the principal determinants of demographic change and the related theories - Reflect upon the socioeconomic and environmental consequences of demographic change, including population growth, fertility decline, rise in longevity, ageing and urbanization - Acquire a general view about population policies from a global comparative perspective

Skills and learning outcomes

Link to document

Description of contents: programme

1. Introduction to demography 2. Demographic theories: Malthus and the demographic transition 3. Demographic methods and data 4. Health and mortality transition 5. The fertility transition 6. Migration transition 7. The age transition: challenges of ageing 8. The urban transition 9. Family and household transition 10. Population growth and sustainability

Learning activities and methodology

Lectures Practical Classes: -Oral presentation in class -Exercises to be carried out in groups or individually -Discussions Individual office hours

Assessment System

% end-of-term-examination 25
% of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 75

Calendar of Continuous assessment

Ordinary call:
a) Continuous evaluation 75%. Grade consists of oral presentation, active participation in class and mid-term test.
b) Final exam 25%. The content of the lectures and tutorials, exercises and readings is exam material of both final exam and mit-term test.

Extraordinary call: 
a) Students who followed the continuous evaluation: same as continuous evaluation. 
b) Students who have not followed the continuous evaluation: 100% exam grade. The content of the whole course is exam material. Those who have not followed the continuous evaluation may have to respond to additional questions in the final exam.

Extraordinary call: regulations

Basic Bibliography

Weeks, John R. . Population. An introduction to concepts and issues. Cengage Learning. 2015

Additional Bibliography

Bongaarts, J. and Casterline, J.. Fertility Transition: Is sub-Saharan Africa Different? . Population and Development Review 38(1): 153¿168.
Borjas, G. J.. Immigration and globalization: A review essay.. Journal of Economic Literature, 53(4), 961-74. . 2015
Christensen, K., Doblhammer, G., Rau, R., & Vaupel, J. W. . Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. The lancet, 374(9696), 1196-1208. 2009
Lesthaeghe, R.. The unfolding story of the second demographic transition. . Population and development review, 36(2), 211-251. . 2010
Malthus, T. R.. Essay on the principle of population. London: ¿J. Johnson. 1798
Reher, D. S. . Economic and social implications of the demographic transition.. Population and development review, 37(s1), 11-33. 2011
Wachter, Kenneth W.. Essential demographic methods. Harvard University Press. 2014
Zarulli, V., Jones, J. A. B., Oksuzyan, A., Lindahl-Jacobsen, R., Christensen, K., & Vaupel, J. W. . Women live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(4), E832-E840. 2018

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.